Let’s Talk, Let’s Listen, Let’s Hold Space Since its inception in September 2010, Bell Canada’s yearly Mental Health initiative #BellLet’sTalk has encouraged conversation about mental health to help reduce the [...]
Hooray! We did it! Congratulations to all students, teachers, administrators, and senior administrators for another rewarding and indeed challenging school year. Families everywhere adapted to a new way of learning [...]
Week 2: Here’s what you can do Engaging your children in activities related to algebraic reasoning When I posted a blog post earlier this week with a few invitations to [...]
Necessity is the mother of invention : Inspire your children with these examples and empower them to be innovative problem solvers. I received a call from my sister a couple [...]
It's Week 2 - Here’s what you can do! A few suggestions for Screen-free, Number sense fun. In the week that passed, it’s safe to say that we learned a [...]
Recently, a friend responded to my blog post on curriculum integration, asking two important questions- Where do I begin? And, how do I naturally pique curiosity for the purpose of [...]
I am a believer in taking immediate action when it comes to matters or tasks that must inevitably get done. Oprah herself is a champion of “seizing the day”, often [...]
Here we are again, on the brink of a new school year and for many teachers, this means that preparations are well underway for a classroom transformation of sorts. Although [...]
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -Albert Einstein https://youtu.be/M6AHcHxLpxc I recently visited the Ontario Science Centre to visit Andy Forest, co-founder of STEAMLabs, a non-profit community makerspace, where people [...]
“Design is not just what it looks like; Design is how it works.” - Steve Jobs https://youtu.be/0bTKK7yKJpI Meet Zelia Capitao Tavares, an Elementary Teacher currently teaching Grade 4, [...]
